John Dunne Quotes

Investigative reporting is not a way to make friends.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

Reporters aren't actually people!

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

Washington newspaper men know everything.